From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-06-08T00:31:39+09:00
Subject: Re: properly extending test::unit to add logging

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, Rob Sanheim wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to open up test::unit to add default logging to setup and
> teardown.  In java I did this with a base test class that every other
> test extended, but that was never very nice as you had to remember to
> call super in subclasses.  The other option was adding aspects and all
> that complexity.   So I thought I could do it nicer in ruby with the
> following:
>
> alias_method :old_setup, :setup
> def setup
>   logger.debug "**** Beginning setup for: #{name} ****"
>   old_setup
> end

whenever you wrap methods like this __always__, __always__, __always__ do this

   alias_method "old_method", "method"

   def method *a, &b
     # ...
     old_method *a, &b
     # ...
   end

you need to collect any args and block and pass them through.

regards.

-a
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